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Cpl Jeremy Smith RM Memorial Plaque
The Cpl Jeremy Smith RM (Decd.) Memorial Plaque Story by Tony Sickelmore In Aug 2022, Dale Mills (former Marine, 42 Cdo 1982) sent me the...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 8
- 6 min
Captain Raymond McMahon Winter - D Day with the Royal Marines Amoured Support Group
Capt R.M. Winter commanded 4 Bty, 2nd R.M. Aroured Support Regiment. Landing on D Day in a Sherman Command Tank. A Journey Through War:...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Attack on the Battery at Chesconessex Creek
Unit/ Formation: Colonial Marines Location: Chesconessex Creek Period/ Conflict: War of 1812 Year: 1814 Date/s: 24 June 1814 A force of...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 4 min
45 Cdo Royal Marines - D Day
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 On the afternoon of the 5th...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Linking up with the Paras on the Orne Bridgehead
News was now received that the Brigade was to come under command of the Sixth Airborne Division, and that the 5th Parachute Brigade had...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 10 min
D Day from an LCA
Combined Ops Signals Officer Charles Armstrong: (Continued from Embarking 47 Cdo at Southampton) We knew exactly where we were going, for...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 5
- 4 min
41 Cdo - Sword Beach - D Day
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The most experienced unit in...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 5
- 5 min
Nan Red 6th June 1944 - No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando
No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando was formed in March 1944 and was the last commando unit formed during the Second World War. It was formed...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 31, 2022
- 10 min
Joseph Kelsey - 5th RM (Independent) Armoured Support Battery
1st January 2019 Key Military (Originally published in Britain At War) D-Day veteran Joseph Kelsey talks to Melody Foreman about the...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 25, 2022
- 21 min
48 Royal Marine Commando - July 1944 - Sallenelles
Occupation of Sallenelles X Troop, under the command of Capt Linnell, led the commandos into the area and found Sallenelles, as expected,...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
The Last Man Standing, the story of Dennis Donovan, 48 Royal Marine Commando Juno Beach
The Story of Dennis Donovan, the last man standing, 48 Royal Marine Commando. A Royal Marines History Podcast Dennis was born on the 3rd...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
RM Band - Repatriation of POWs to Argentina
Canberra now acting returned to San Carlos for a third time to pick up 5,500 POWs of the 11,845 Argentine POWs and sailed for Puerto...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29, 2022
- 5 min
The Battle for the Falklands - 40 Years On (Pt 2; June 1982)
3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29, 2022
- 3 min
Hunting the Exocet
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Europe and Gibraltar Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: June 1982 The French AM 39...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Operation KeyHole
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Thule Island Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 19 - 20 June 1982 After the...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
Scouts HELARM - Bunker Busting
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 14 June 1982 During the...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 12, 2022
- 4 min
Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge, & Sapper Hill
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Mount Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13–14...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 12, 2022
- 3 min
Capitulation of Louisbourg
As soon as it was determined to make an attack on Louisbourg, Commodore Warren was directed to proceed to Canso from the Leeward Islands,...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 14, 2022
- 6 min
Cpl George Tandy - Gold Beach - 'The Human Rudder'
Corporal George Ernest Tandy Ch. X 110723 was 19 years old when as a crewman on LCA 786 he swung down from the davits of Landing Ship...
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